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We live in a time of information abundance, which far too many of us see as information overload. With the sum total of human knowledge, past and present, at our fingertips, we’re faced with a crisis of attention: which ideas should we engage with, and why? Big Think is an evolving roadmap to the best thinking on the planet — the ideas that can help you think flexibly and act decisively in a multivariate world.

A word about Big Ideas and Themes — The architecture of Big Think

Big ideas are lenses for envisioning the future. Every article and video on bigthink.com and on our learning platforms is based on an emerging “big idea” that is significant, widely relevant, and actionable. We’re sifting the noise for the questions and insights that have the power to change all of our lives, for decades to come. For example, reverse-engineering is a big idea in that the concept is increasingly useful across multiple disciplines, from education to nanotechnology.

Themes are the seven broad umbrellas under which we organize the hundreds of big ideas that populate Big Think. They include New World Order, Earth and Beyond, 21st Century Living, Going Mental, Extreme Biology, Power and Influence, and Inventing the Future.

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Wolf: We, you know, sees you from a bounty hunter or we put you in a shipping container where you almost suffocate, we chain you to the floor, you defecate on yourself, we put you in cages, we threaten your family, we torture you, we attach electricity to your genitals, we hang you from the ceiling, we tell you that you’re never getting out, we strip you through process.  And now, six years later, you’re released.  Do we owe them something?  I wish every church and synagogue in this country was asking prisoners these questions, do we owe something?  I think we owe them a great, great deal.  And the first thing we owe them is apology and the second thing we owe them is to dismantle Guantanamo and raze it to the ground and set up a marker on it like [IB] and the third thing we owe them is the reinstatement of the rule of law in Habeas Corpus in every single place that we’re responsible for people around the world including here at home.

 

Naomi Wolf on Guantanamo

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